Amateur Team “Pyrénées”
SOCAUT Pyrénées
This car is a Socaut Pyrénées, a French car originally build for carrying stuff in the peaceful pastures of the mountains.
The modified car, preparing for the trail
Our amateur team heavily modified it, especially the serious modification of the engine, being a pair of Renault Cléon-alu engines hacked together, making a Flat Plane 90° V8 with a 3129cc capacity.
It really gives life to this steel and wooden car, pushing it up to 172 kph and capable to tow 900kg or load on it 675kg thanks to the modified suspension
The suspension… it’s a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of spare parts like Citroen’s hydro-pneumatic system, as an example …
The team is composed of two friends from the town of Pouyastruc, in the southern France, Jean-Claude Cassenave and André Lacassagne
(I have to precise that names and places are used in a fictitious manner ^^)